[therealrootuser]

Many states (by now) have already passed legislation to the effect that if/when the federal government allows it, they will simply stay on DST year-around.

There are a number of bills on a federal level that would allow states to do this, but each of these bills have seemingly been lost in the torpid world of inaction.

[RKearney]

I seriously doubt that would ever happen. Devices do not have a "always DST" mode, but they do in fact have a "never DST" mode.

In order to stay in DST, the region would have to completely change which timezone they observe. Pacific Time would observe Mountain Time, Mountain -> Central, Central -> Eastern, and Eastern would have to observe whatever GMT-4 is.